Inspired by black panther sightings around my hometown, I couldn’t resist writing this tale. It’s partially based on a CB radio conversation I know really happened. The sightings continue to this day, I’m told. How and why is unclear–like Sasquatch, how can such a creature continue to survive and where did it come from. I think there is more story to tell. Maybe by next Halloween…
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New Romantic Ghost Stories for 2015
On Halloween 2015 Linda Madl released her third annual collection of ghost stories.
The Ghost Bride – Amazon
Two romantic old-fashioned ghost stories with just enough creepiness for the fall season.
A Fine Collection of Urns – Amazon
Four contemporary tales told in the spirit of the old Victorian gentlemen, but these narrators are women. Spooky. Leave the lights on while you read.
Happy Holidays from the Cemetery – Amazon
Four hair-raising gothic tales from the prairie. For your reading pleasure, ghost lovers.
Re-release of Speak of Love
Dear Readers—
I’d like to announce the re-released Speak of Love on Kindle through Mythical Press. Why this title again? Because like you, I love a Scottish setting. On my second visit to Edinburgh one evening my husband and I walked along a country road during the long summer twilight. From a nearby glen we could hear a water fall, and beside us we could see the mist gathering over the pastureland. It gave one a chill. How easy it was to envision Macbeth’s witches at the wood’s edge chanting over a boiling kettle. From the walls of Dunvegan castle I pictured the billowing sails of a pirate ship. Sitting at a restaurant window, we admired a luminous rainbow arching across a loch. Scotland is indeed a land of inspiration for writer and reader.
It is a land of brownies and elves, castles and lochs, witches, kelpies, lowlands and highlands, Jacobites and pirates. The men and women have survived invasions, occupations, and wars. Atmospheric, picturesque, and rich in history, Scotland is fascinating to research and perfect as inspiration for heroes and heroines of any age.
Honora and Brec are among my favorite characters. They are strong people bent on protecting their families. After a rocky courtship and a wedding in ancient St. Giles, they journey across Scotland to the west coast, hoping to find a future in a war-torn country. But, can they find their way to each other? If you’ve not read my work before, I hope you’ll read Speak of Love.
Here’s the Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PCKIMCQ
Linda Madl
April 2015
“New” book coming from Lee Killough
Books We Love will shortly be publishing a new…well almost new…e-book by Lee Killough. Years ago I wrote three science fiction books featuring a pair of detectives…Janna Brill and “Mama” Maxwell. Strange name for him but it popped into my head as I was looking for a name for him and Mama he became and stayed. She’s the tough by the book detective; he’s the unconventional and intuitive partner. Not very original now but back in the 70’s when I wrote The Doppelganger Gambit it seemed a novel twist. I was re-publishing my old print titles as e-books to give them a second life and reading these three books, the characters and plots still seemed sound. So, I thought…update the tech a bit (because what seemed futurist in the seventies pre PCs and cell phones and tablets was soooo stone age) and we’re good to go. Right.
Somewhere I read the statement: What man makes, remakes man. As I worked out the tech, building on what we have right now, and applying that to the story, I discovered how true that statement was. New tech didn’t just affect criminal investigation, it changed the whole society they’re in. So an “update” turned into a two-year job where I ended up writing virtually a new book. Same characters, same crime, same bad guy, and even similar sequence of events, but much different scenery along the way, if you will. I’m hoping readers will enjoy it. But we’ll just have to see.
For Your Summertime Reading
Dear Reader,
Summer reading time is here.
The holidays and winter are over. So, it’s time to put away the spicy and shiny things of fall and winter and look toward the blue-sky days of sunshine and lemonade. In that spirit, I’ve unpublished my e-book offerings on Kindle, The Christmas Pearls, and Happy Holidays from the Gates of Hell.
As you look for porch, beach, or lakeside reading—I hope you’ll purchase some of my earlier works in book form.
- Sunny is a love and adventure story set in post-Civil War days when Jesse James rode the tree-shaded lanes of Missouri.
- Sweet Ransom takes you to the steppes of Russia and Cossack country in the late 1600s. Elise and Nicholas dare to search for her captured baby sister among the Tartars.
- In Bride and Groom, you can read my story, “The Bridal Cup,” about a long lost family heirloom that must be returned to Scotland. American Leonora, a modern woman doctor, promises to return the ancient cup to an old-fashioned Scottish lord, Ross of Glenalder, in the Highlands.
My books are available online from Amazon and other used bookstore sites. I hope you’ll make friends with them this summer.
In the fall, watch for my new seasonal e-pub stories for Halloween and Christmas
Wishing you good summertime reading,
Linda Madl
Author
The Christmas Pearls
Congrats on new Omnibus
Great cover and great stories.
Congratulations on fine work.
New Book out! from Lee Killough
From Lee Killough: The e-book version of Ancient Enemy is now up at Amazon, with the print version hopefully available by Labor Day. May be on sale at Worldcon but will certainly be on sale at www.yarddogpress.com
Up coming book from LEE KILLOUGH
The galley proofs for my new SF novel Ancient Enemy, true SF, and a space opera, arrived from Yard Dog Press yesterday. So all reading and writing is on hold while I proof the galleys. So far they’re looking pretty clean. Yard Dog hopes to have the book ready by Worldcon. I have my fingers crossed and am looking forward to seeing the cover…which I haven’t yet.
Upcoming SF convention Osfest
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Lee Killough will be attending Osfest, Omaha’s science fiction convention, next weekend…July 26 to 28th. I hope to see you there!